An adventure with the indian gypsies, the new movie of Raphael Treza
Cobra Gypsies offers a contemporary and colorful window to the amazing
ancient culture of the nomadic Kalbeliya tribes, living in rural
Rajasthan, Northern India. The film explores their culture of eternal
dance, syncopated music, snake charming, colorful fashion and the
nomadic way of life of these exotic looking castoffs, ancestors to the
modern Roma Gypsies living in Europe today.
Cobra Gypsies seems like an amazing accidental ethnographic film and it
is reminiscent of the aesthetics utilized by Nouvelle Vague visual
anthropology filmmaker, Jean Rouch on documentaries like "Me a Black"
(Moi, un Noir)" but in a more transparent factual way.
Although, the Kailbelyas subjects posed for the camera like for a
fashion editorial spread, the action permeates ingenuity and sets a
frank connection between the Kailbeliya subject and the audience.
Raphael Treza, a French musician and filmmaker, creates in Cobra Gypsies
not only a compelling documentary with an outstanding soundtrack, but a
colorful digital postcard like journal, postmarked in Rajasthan for the
whole world to see.
In 2010, the Kalbeliyas folk songs and dances of Rajasthan were declared a part of the Intangible Heritage List by the UNESCO
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